Edward Simpson 
Highways to the End of the World [EPUB ebook] 
Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia

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This book argues that road-building was naturalised in the twentieth century to the point of common sense, integrating roadbuilding into a system of climate change denial hidden within a broad international development imperative. But if we can ‘read’ South Asian roads as forms of governance and knowledge, we can challenge the region’s established geopolitical narratives, and the idea of a never-ending future.

Highways to the End of the World explores the political economy of these ideas by focusing on the history of this phenomenon, and on the road-builders of South Asia themselves. How do these flamboyant and controversial ‘roadmen’ think about their work and the future of the planet? What do roads do, and why? And how did they become central to the region’s nationalist and developmental projects in the first place?

Simpson’s fascinating ethnographic account takes us from fume-filled toll booths in the heart of India, via overworked government offices in Pakistan, to pharaonic bridges in the Indian Ocean. Simpson follows the money, explores the politics of evidence, and argues against the utopian hyperbole of present-day ‘road talk’, finding both humanitarian crises and freewheeling international capital in the hedgerows. Roads have never been so interesting, or so controversial.

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Edward Simpson is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS University of London,  and Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute. He is the author of 
The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat,  India
 (also published by Hurst); and
 Muslim Society and the Western Indian Ocean.

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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 296 ● ISBN 9781787389953 ● Dimensione 18.4 MB ● Casa editrice Hurst Publishers ● Pubblicato 2022 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 8697590 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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